Originally Posted by
bergamini
Agreed. Although I know of some friends whose companies make them go get rental cars for long trips. That doesn't work for me at all because it's easily an extra hour each way to pick up / drop off / fill up, shuttle, park, paperwork, etc. What a waste of up to 25% of your work day for a vry nominal savings by the employer.
My employer's travel policy encourages us to rent a car (and
submit actual expenses) instead driving our own on longer trips. On a recent trip of about 300 miles I presented it to my boss this way: I can drive my own car @ $.54/mile for $162. Or I can rent a car at the airport for $50, buy gas for about $35, and pay about $45 for transit to/from the airport. These total $130 hard cost, not counting the soft cost of time spent getting to/from the airport and time picking up/dropping off the vehicle.
"Drive you own car and save the time," answered my boss. ^